The University of St Andrews, Scotland: For those of you who missed the presentation by Professor Andrew Pettegree entitled 'The Invention of News: Past Present and Future', we would like to share with you a recent interview of his concerning his book on the same subject. He can be heard in a outstanding interview on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. The full interview can be heard or downloaded from this link: http://www.wnyc.org/story/invention-news/
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National Poetry Month: In 1984 Robert Penn Warren noted that "To have great poets there must be great audiences."
--- With the ku*kuroo** festivals we would like to achieve what Sylas Goldean describes in his forward to A Book of Ku as interdependent self-sufficiency . . . where the groups' assorted beliefs, practices, and traditions were not only kept alive, but refreshed and refined by the hybrid vigor which often obtains in conditions of fertile proximity." (A Book of Ku, by Jim Dodge) The objective of the ku*kuroo** festivals, (yes, a few more are in the planning stages), is to create a moving vortex, or epicenter, to the Mythical State of Jefferson. A sort of travelling circus into which one can enter and engage, and withdraw back into the matrix of life outside the Mythical State of Jefferson. This is a concept espoused by Gurdjieff, that of coming and going (Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1979). This action, at a fundamental level is the inherent action in the yin/yang symbol, symbolized in the Trinity and a root system (push/pull) at first cause. Some call it "the suchness" or gravity or the body without organs or rhizome or . . . but that's another blog. Ku is a form of #micropoetry in which the poem is 7 syllables and the title is longer than the poem. Kuroo means "to gather". In the beginning was The Word. The Word gives form and emphasis to thought, thought to action. The ku*kuroo** Festivals are celebrations of the poet in each of us, manifesting in infinite individual forms. At Ku*kuroo** #1, we'll have some poetry, films, technology and music. At ku*kuroo** #2 in Monterrey we'll add more of these attractions, and skating, sculpture, painting and photography. Then on to Boston! We're about to begin a kickstarter campaign to raise some funds to help cover the costs of putting these events on. If you get the "yeah, baby, yeah!" vibe and want to invest a few bucks we'll send you a Walter the White Buffalo Mythical State of Jefferson (below) bumper sticker and a XX Broadside (above), sort of our version of Bitcoin. Poets, if you post a KU POEM at the KU YU? link above, we'll make it into a KU movie and screen it on the 7th. We think of the ku*kuroo** like John and Yoko's concept of NEWTOPIA, poetry in action for everyone. Poets RULE~let's ku-create! See you in the XX. LISTENING TO A YOUNG CULTURAL STUDIES GRAD STUDENT LECTURE ON THE TRANSGRESSIVE INTERROGATION OF THE HIDDEN FATHER FIGURE OR SOMETHING POSTMODERN LIKE THAT --- Tennis on the radio. by
Jim Dodge for Victoria Hate
parches. Love leaves puddles. by Jim Dodge A Book of Ku HARD WORK
Boys, I've listened to your horseshit enough. You want to know what hard work is, listen up: I've rode a misery whip; carried hod; Pulled green-chain; broke big rocks into little rocks; Whupped a hundred miles of picket fence; Set choker in country so rough You were doing good if you could crawl downhill. I've fought wildfire; lugged sandbags against floods; Bucked hay till I was tripping on my tongue; And made so damn much split stuff I plumb wore out a sledgehammer head And a couple o' pairs of elk-hide gloves. So you boys can write it down as gospel when I tell you The hardest work you'll find in this world Is digging the grave for someone you loved. In The Last Blog I Followed The Same Rules As The Previous 7 Blogs With The Words ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE BABY! Except I Selected The Images Using My Brain and Heart Instead of Letting The Internet Machine Choose For Me From The Hundreds (Maybe) Thousands (Maybe) Millions of Stock Photos Each Of The Images The Image Search Engines Associates With Each Of The Words ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, BABY! Which You May Have Noticed Consisted Mainly of Pictures Of The Fab Four. This Made Me Think of A Conversation I Had With A Friend While We Were Wrangling Chickens Into A Chicken Coop And Talking About Technology. 12 Chickens Went Straight Into The Coop Where There Was Safety From The Coming Dusk and The Predators That Follow With It. BUt One Chicken Refused, Instead Running Off Into A Neighboring Field, And Inevitably A Tasty Meal For A Fox or Coyote or Mountain Lion. My Friend Said, "As Amazing As The Predator Object Tracking Algorithm Is (http://youtu.be/1GhNXHCQGsM), It's Still Dumber Than A Chicken"
--- Inhale (ellipses) exhale. By Micky McKu |